2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Information Management in the Southwest Region

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Health Information Management is the 251st most popular major in the country with 2,942 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 199 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in health information management. That schools that top this list have a program in health information management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Information Management in the Southwest Region

1

Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Southwest Region list. Southwestern Oklahoma State University is located in Weatherford, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 12 masters’s health information degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Health Information Management at Southwestern Oklahoma State University

2

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas State is a large public school situated in San Marcos, Texas. It awarded 10 masters’s health information degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Texas State Health Information Management Report

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.